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Well, it LOOKS awesome. I'll give it that. And it has one GREAT set piece.
By "great set piece," am I to infer there is basically one action scene in the movie?
I wouldn't call it an action scene. It's just an obscenely suspenseful and incredibly well-crafted sequence.
It's a well-made, well-acted, and well-shot movie with a naive, terrible script. Kind of par for the course for Villeneuve, basically.
Hmm. I think I should watch it, but sounds like Mrs. Trag might be bored. The scene I watched was the motorcade through some city in Mexico. It felt tense and dangerous without my having any idea what was going on, and it did look great. But there was virtually no dialogue, so I had no insight into the script.
The only other Villeneuve film I've seen is Arrival. Prisoners didn't look interesting to me, but I thought Enemy looked promising.
Enemy is based on a book that I goddamn LOVE but a writer that I goddamn LOVE. I had no idea Villeneuve directed Enemy. I knew it was a movie and that Jake Gyllenhaal was in it. And that it was based on The Double. But somehow Villeneuve's involvement escaped me. Guess, I have to see it now.
Continuing LOTR with the 6-year-old. Two Towers is very easily the weakest of these movies. So much downtime. It also seems like they started rushing post-production a bit; the CGI is much clunkier here than it was in Fellowship.
The middle act is always set up and stakes though. But I agree. Two towers is the one I least enjoy of the three.
I gotta tell ya, the trailer had me scratching my head. I've been avoiding it. It looks very different from the book, which is fine, but has me concerned. But I really dig Villenueve. And Gyllenhaal. So I feel like I should give it a shot.
Especially now that I'm more removed from the book. It's not so fresh in my mind.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Enemy is laughable nonsense.
I gotta tell ya, the trailer had me scratching my head. I've been avoiding it. It looks very different from the book, which is fine, but has me concerned. But I really dig Villenueve. And Gyllenhaal. So I feel like I should give it a shot.
Especially now that I'm more removed from the book. It's not so fresh in my mind.
I gotta tell ya, the trailer had me scratching my head. I've been avoiding it. It looks very different from the book, which is fine, but has me concerned. But I really dig Villenueve. And Gyllenhaal. So I feel like I should give it a shot.
Especially now that I'm more removed from the book. It's not so fresh in my mind.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47142 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
durdencommatyler wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Enemy is laughable nonsense.
I gotta tell ya, the trailer had me scratching my head. I've been avoiding it. It looks very different from the book, which is fine, but has me concerned. But I really dig Villenueve. And Gyllenhaal. So I feel like I should give it a shot.
Especially now that I'm more removed from the book. It's not so fresh in my mind.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
I showed all of the extended Fellowship of the Ring and 30 minutes of extended Two Towers to a 6-year-old yesterday and I've never seen a little kid so compelled for so long. It was great.
My son has watched them at least three times a year for the past couple years. They were the first PG-13 movies we let him watch.
Watched Lego Batman and it was Ok. Mariah Carey as the Mayor? Might as well have Donald Trump as President! oh wait...
I don't know. There were really good parts (that into was amazing) and then long stretches of almost nothing. I do enjoy how the Lego brand is it's own universe and they acknowledge that it's basically a little kids fever dream. Makes me more excited for future movies since literally anyone could show up. As long as it's not Marvel.
"Evil British robots! Ask your nerd friends." was great.
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